Customer Service Software

Customer Service software covers any tool designed to help organizations manage multi-channel inbound and outbound communications, including phone, live chat, and email, and resolve customer issues. Typical features include call routing, ticketing, and analytics.

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Freshdesk is a SaaS based customer support software for businesses of all sizes. Freshdesk provides every company with the tools it needs to wow customers - robust multichannel capability, integrated game mechanics to supercharge agent productivity, smart automations, self service portals, community forums and a lot more. Read more about Freshdesk Freshdesk is free forever for three agents, sign up now!

SysAid is a leading provider of IT service management (ITSM) solutions that enable IT professionals to manage their IT infrastructures and services with greater ease and efficiency. Over 10,000 organizations are using our intuitive and cost-effective solutions. Read more about SysAid

TeamSupport is an easy to use customer service and help desk solution built for B2B companies. Improve collaboration between departments & customers and manage tickets at the customer level to decrease support costs while improving the customer experience. Read more about TeamSupport.com
TeamSupport B2B customer support features include customer & product databases, advanced reporting, self-service portals, screen recordings, live chat, ticket management & automation, native integrations and much more.
Engage all members of your support team with sales and other departments to address customer issues quickly and efficiently. Internal chat and water cooler features enable real-time discussions with any member of your team, no matter where they are.

Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service software solution trusted by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Companies such as Groupon, Box, and Zappos are using Zendesk to lower costs, raise productivity, and increase customer satisfaction. Loved by both customer service teams and their customers for its beautifully simple interface, Zendesk is ea… Read more about Zendesksy to try, buy, implement, and use. Zendesk seamlessly integrates all of your support channels including email, web, chat, and social media.
Deploy to as many customer service agents as you need whether it's 5, 50, or 500. Zendesk has been deployed by companies with thousands of agents and with tens of thousands of tickets each day.

Freshservice is an online ITIL service desk with a fresh twist. The tool puts a refreshing user experience on top of powerful ticketing and asset management capabilities like auto-discovery of new resources, powerful configuration management and enhanced impact analysis. Read more about Freshservice ServiceDesk Incident, Problem, Change, Release & Knowledge Management are amongst the other features that make Freshservice, a perfect fit for your organization's IT management needs.

UserVoice is the leading product feedback management software. Founded in 2006, UserVoice is dedicated to enabling businesses to make data-driven product decisions and prioritize feature requests by making customer feedback more meaningful. Today, more than 3,500 companies use UserVoice to make strategic product decisions and improve user engagement… Read more about UserVoice and retention while being efficient with their development resources.

JitBit provides a helpdesk ticketing system for freelancers, startups, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises. The app allows you to manage and track all incoming support request emails and their associated tickets, automating tasks and organizing tickets into categories. Read more about JitBit Help Desk The help desk is protected by SSL and hosted by amazon's servers providing daily backups and 24x7 monitoring.
The web-based help desk fully integrates with your email and Active Directory, providing a detailed overview of all your tickets and customers. You can organize tickets by allocating categories and tags and view specific tickets through filters. You can use filters to route tickets, apply certain actions and set priorities. You can also use tickets to create a knowledgebase and report on business performance.

What to look for in a Customer Service app?

Customer service is the lifeblood of any business. It may sound obvious, but it’s not always easy to get right, which is why you need tools to help you out. These tools manage the level of support provided before, during, and after a purchase is made or a service is provided. Not only will the right cloud-based customer service app help you improve the way you interact with your customer, it will also enable you to measure your performance and identify ways in which you can improve. This is done by automating key processes, documenting best practices, recording customer interactions, and providing details analytics, all of which better equips a company to provide exceptional service to its customers.

Must have Customer Service features

Choosing the right customer service app for your business is not an easy process, but here are some common features you should look for, as well as some more niche functionality that could be useful for your business.

API

Your customer service software shouldn't work in isolation, but if you want it to work with your other systems, you'll need a fully-documented API that integrates with other common solutions, along with plenty of support from the software vendor.

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Knowledge Base

Helping customers to help themselves is key for any good customer service software. A knowledge base brings together articles, videos and other interactive content to allow your customers to find answers to their questions without the need for a customer service agenet, as well as allowing your support staff to provide quicker resolution to common queries.

Routing

Routing matches customers to the most appropriate member of their support staff to answer theor question. This can be done not just with phone calls, but also with live chat, mobile, and social media interactions.

SLA Management

When your customers have a problem, they want to know when they can expect a response and in what way. SLA management allows you to set up multiple company policies and ensure they are communicated to customers.

Real Time Reporting

Real time reporting can help you understand your customers better by pulling together key metrics to provide insights into their behaviors, meaning you can provide a more personalized and relevant response.

Ticket Management

Centralizing customer correspondence is important if you want to provide the best support. Ticket management allows you to bring together customer questions from multiple channels into one, centralized location.

Further reading on Customer Service

A business without customers is like a car without an engine: it's going nowhere. Serving your customers well is the crux of any business, and your ability to deliver on what you promise your customers is what differentiates you from your competitors.

It's crystal clear that customer service is important. No matter what industry your small business is in, you need to make sure that your clients receive the service they pay for. Apart from the traditional meaning of customer service, which is according to Wikipedia "the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase", small businesses also need to be aware of the importance of the social consumer.

A lack of resources, such as customer service reps, is the biggest challenge being faced by SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses), according to new research. The study also reveals that not having enough visibility at customer level is another big challenge being faced by SMBs today.

The true cost of bad customer service is high: according to cloud contact center provider NewVoiceMedia, businesses in the US lose $41 billion each year due to poor customer service.

Customer Service Category Leaders Q1 2018

GetApp's quarterly ranking showcases the top 25 Customer Service apps based in the cloud. Each app is scored using five factors, worth 20 points each, for a total possible score out of 100. These factors include user reviews, integrations, mobile app availability, media presence, and security. Each app's score is independent of commercial interests and existing relationships that GetApp has with app vendors.

Who is the ranking for?

GetApp's Category Leader ranking is for business owners and decision makers looking for a comprehensive list of the leading cloud-based software products in the industry.

The ranking serves as a point of reference highlighting key factors that small businesses should look at when assessing a piece of software. These factors include user perception (reviews), compatibility (integrations and mobile compatibility), market presence (media presence), and security features (security).

How are the scores calculated?

An app's score is calculated using five unique data points, each scored out of 20, giving a total score out of 100. The ranking and scoring methodology ensure complete impartiality and independence from any relationships that GetApp has with app vendors.

User Reviews*

Review scores are calculated using reviews collected from GetApp and its sister sites, Software Advice and Capterra. Scores are calculated based on the total number, average rating, and recency of reviews.

The number of reviews and average user rating are scaled against the category average. A weighting is then applied to reward recency of user reviews: reviews written in the last 6 months score up to 10 points, those written between 6 and 12 months ago score up to 6 points, and those more than 12 months old score up to 4 points. These numbers are added together to give a total maximum score of 20.

Integrations

Integration scores factor in a number of variables. Up to 16 points are awarded based on the number of integrations an app has; the first 10 points are awarded based on the number of integrations relative to the category average, while 4 points are awarded based on the number of integrations relative to the leaders in the category. An additional 5 points is awarded for an integration with Zapier, a widely used software integration platform, while an extra point is given for having an open API. The total possible score for integrations is 20 points.

Mobile Platforms*

Mobile scores are calculated based on the availability of an iOS and Android app. 5 points are awarded for the presence of each app, with an additional 10 points being awarded for the number and average rating of reviews in both the App Store and Google Play. These review scores are calculated and scaled against the competition for a maximum of 5 points per platform and an overall maximum score of 20.

If there isn't a native iOS or Android app, the product's website is assessed using Google's PageSpeed Insights to measure mobile usability. The score is returned out of 100, then scaled to a score out of 5 for a maximum of 5 points.

Media Presence

Media presence is calculated using the number of Twitter followers and Facebook fans that an app has. The number of fans and followers are added together, and each app is scored based on this overall number, compared with others in the category. The first 15 points are awarded for the combined number of followers and fans scaled against the category average, while the final 5 points are awarded for the combined number of followers and fans scaled against the top leaders in the category. These two scores are added together for a total out of 20 points.

Security

Security scoring is calculated using answers from a vendor-completed survey. The questions in the survey are based on the Cloud Security Alliance self-assessment form as part of the Security, Trust & Assurance Registry. With 15 questions, each answer is assigned a point value based on vendor response, with additional points given for security certifications, for a maximum possible score of 20.

In the event of a tie, each data point is weighted for importance, with security taking precedent, followed by reviews, integrations, mobile apps, and media presence, respectively.

*All data points combining calculations for both ratings and reviews are calculated using a Bayesian estimate, which is a weighted average that includes the number of reviews and the rating of an app, benchmarked against others in the category.

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